Amazon Video now on Roku in the UK.

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TV Bit of an inside announcement only of interest to a miniscule number of you, but I awoke the other morning to the news that Amazon Vide...

Review 2015: Film Experiences: Another Call For Entries.

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It occurs to me that not everyone who reads my scrawls uses Twitter where I've been plugging this twice a day, so I thought I'd be...

Still Ironic.

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Life It's been an interesting day, many demons laid to rest for reasons inside the limits of an adjunct to the blog rules (original p...

Soup Safari #56: Leek, Potato and Herb at The Pen Factory.

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Lunch. £3.50. The Pen Factory, 13 Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BQ. Phone: 0151 709 7887. Website.

My Favourite Film of 1973.

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Film If there was a spiritual venue for my cinematic awakening it was the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds. From the moment I discovere...

Soup Safari #55: Mixed Bean at the Street Café in the Everyman Theatre.

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Lunch. £3.50. Street Café, Everyman Theatre, 5-11 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BH. Tel: 0151 708 3700. Website.

The Zygon Inversion.

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TV Peter Fucking Capaldi. With a title like The Zygon Inversion, Peter Harness’s The Zygon Inversion seemed like an unlikely moment for...

Greener.

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Politics After retweeting something which she's since deleted, a contextless tweet that said, "Not quite how I'd put it, but ...

BBC Store opens its virtual doors.

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TV The BBC Store has finally launched there's plenty to visually engorge on if you have the funds. I'm personally inclined to ...

25 years, 36,000 postcards.

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Medicine Araveeti Ramayogaiah was an Indian paediatrician who years before the internet was passing the word about preventative medicine ,...

My Favourite Film of 1974.

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Film Here we are, the year of my birth. Any film beyond here I have to have seen retrospectively, though that's of course true of e...

Soup Safari #54:
Wild Mushroom at the Piazza Cafe in Liverpool Metropolitan University.

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Lunch. £3.75 (85p for crust bread). Piazza Cafe, Metropolitan Cathedral Steps, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 5TQ. Phone:...

A Doctor Who Random Story Generator.

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TV Back in mists of time which look somewhat like the 90s, author Paul Magrs produced one of my favourite scenes in all of Doctor Who in...

Mark Kermode on The Lodger.

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Film As part of the BFI's new Player+ role out, they've asked Kermode to choose films from their catalogue and record introducti...

The Zygon Invasion.

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TV “You're middle-aged, that's what it is. No offence. Everybody middle-aged always thinks the world's about to come to an...

The Globe's Hamlet plays in a Jordanian refugee camp.

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Theatre Shakespeare's Globe's global tour of Hamlet, an attempt to perform the play in every country in the world hit problem with...

Soup Safari #53:
Broccoli and Parsnip at Café Rylands in The John Rylands Library.

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Lunch. £3.75. Cafe Rylands, The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH. Phone:0161 306 0555. Website.

Level-Up.

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Comics For all that I might say that I don't buy comics, here's the list of comics I'm currently buying regularly: Buffy: ...

"Important changes to your LOVEFiLM By Post membership"

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Film Uh-oh. With streaming in the ascendency particularly Netflix, I've been wondering just how long the Lovefilm outpost of the Am...

RSC's Volpone to be streamed by the BBC.

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Theatre Beginning this weekend, the BBC's On Stage season will televise three plays, offer some more on radio and have a lot of docu...